#written it just doesnt work well.

[ilynpilled]

i can fully understand the gripes with certain misogynistic tropes/writing issues that are present in the execution of some of cersei’s writing, but i will never understand the “she should have a redemption arc” or “she should be more likeable/less morally dark” perspective. that is not what her character is or has to be to make it great. wanting more female anti-heroes or “redemption arcs” with moral greyness and complexity of the level that asoiaf gives to primarily male characters is entirely understandable, but do some of you people even like cersei as a character, like at its core? like this is not about criticising the execution of certain things when it comes to this character, this is about taking issue with her as a villain fundamentally, which i just do not agree with at all

#i also do not understand why she is juxtaposed only w her brothers #in this respect #like if u wanna take issue w not as many female anti heroes that r allowed the level of true moral greyness of j theon etc i get that #but thats a whole text problem like a family isnt a monolith they r different characters with different drives its not a competition between #them #all three r dealing w some very very diff things too like they r distinct characters #and i honestly dont think cersei’s character set up works with a redemption story like she specifically is way more interesting as she is #she is a discussion of tropes when it comes the ‘female villain’ and u can take issue w the execution but i like the concept a lot #like she is written the way she is for a reason why do u want her to be a different character entirely #like if u want this why not advocate for george making a female character whose story would actually work with the redemption trope instead #of making their writing weaker and less trope busting #ig i just really like with cersei the idea that her being an evil perpetrator doesnt erase her being a victim of misogyny and vice versa #like i like that challenge that she is deserving of sympathy for these things without the need to redeem her or make her ‘likeable’ #patriarchal violence will affect all women #and the story deserves to work just as well with someone u r not supposed to root for #its about the humanization of these people #evil doesnt exist in a vacuum #and it makes perfect sense that these specific systemic conditions create it #and then perpetuate it

[pinkeoni]

i dont think that byler needs to have had been planned since the beginning for it to still be happening

#now truthfully do i know if byler has always been planned?? im not the duffers so i dont know. maybe #although… #i dont know #will was always supposed to be gay per the pitch book #and thats carried through in s1 #but mike was supposed to have a birthmark and joyce was supposed to be a tough long island mom #things change #el being dead in the original draft doesnt really mean anything cause well shes still here #tbh i can imagine the duffs going into s1 without byler really in mind but then later realizing that it could work #based on how it was already written #‘hey. wouldnt it be funny if we put mike and will together instead of mike and el’ #i dont think that byler or gay mike contradicts what we see in s1. i just dont know if blyer or gay mike was always on their mind #in those early stages of the show #in s2 i could see this however #like how monica and chandler werent always gonna be together #and then they end the show together #byler is still happening as hinted by everything up to this point #that wouldnt change if it were not in fact realized at conception #same thing with el likely not dying just because she was originally planned to

[calkale]

not to bring this up AGAIN but i cant believe they did that to ilsa

#watching fallout and im trying to pretend mi7 doesnt exist but 😬😬😬😬 #literally how do you ruin a character that badly #shes my fav mi character and one of my favourite female characters in general cause shes written so well #and then that happened 🙄 #obviously mcq doesn’t deserve the hate he got for it but also i hope he knows what he did was shitty #it doesnt make sense story wise #its a horrible ending for her character #and its even worse if she comes back in the next movie thats awful writing no matter what #AND he just replaced her with some generic female character who had to be saved countless times throughout the movie 😐 #not to mention the way he and tom talked about ilsa and how much work they put into her character in rogue nation and fallout #I DONT GET IT WHY THROW THAT ALL AWAY #im so upset #mi #ilsa faust

[nolongerexistingsadcatface]

Ok yes America hating the cold is funny (eh) BUT. have you considered that I like the imagery of an America sitting alone in the forest in the bleak mid-winter landscape of an east coast woods, all alone in both body and mind, agonizing over her seeming doom to be stuck in the throes of loneliness for all eternity?

#aph nyo america #aph america #i want engagement <3 #secret confession i actually hate that canonically america doesnt do well in the cold #it gives too much ammo to the west coasters (villains) who can’t let my poor baby alfred be the east coast girl he truly is #also in a broader sense i feel like it creates a weird divide in both the portrayal of america and the connection he has with his country #as its representation #america is one of the most climate diverse countries in the entire world and i feel like making the REPRESENTATION OF AMERICA not be able t #handle a large majority of his country’s climate is an Odd choice and creates an unfortunate barrier between american culture #and the way it’s portrayed in hetalia #imo one of the most amazing parts of the geography of the us is its ability to be a metaphor for the american people #so insanely diverse and fundamentally different and completely irreconcilable—but it works anyways. #the land works together anyways //we// work together anyways we become one anyways despite what any and all logic dictates #what any and all logic DEMANDS #so for america to not be able to represent that cohesion + community—and in fact represent an intense and almost INNATE complete inability #to even try being accepting of and embracing our differences—is just.. not something I like + insinuates a very odd view of American cultur #my eyes are shutting as i type this im so tired #sorry if this is horribly written rip #i see this a lot in the hetalia fandom (IK I JUST DID IT IN THIS POST LMAO BUT I SWEAR I DO IT AS A JOKE; I REALLY DO APPRECIATE THE WEST #COAST AND AM FULLY AWARE OF ITS ROLE IN THE US CULTURE AND FUNCTION) where people write alfred as being almost hostilely exclusionary??? #towards certain areas of america—city al who doesn’t like the country; country al who doesn’t like the newfangled cities; northerner al #who hates the southerners (because theyre poor + dont fit the author’s view of respectable people BUT THATS FOR A DIFFERENT POST);southerne #al who hates the northerners—and it’s all very gross to me. america is not—at its core—a country/culture founded on separation!! our ideals #are based on being—at our most basic—separate multi-faceted individuals who COME TOGETHER!! as one because of common ideals and love #E PLURIBUS UNUM!!!!!! #ok im done gn

[sometipsygnostalgic]

Tumblr! Let me edit my own fucking reblog! I need to add more tags on that post!!!

#if youre wondering i hate slow burn with miscommunication most #wtf is hanahaki??? #also why can i freely edit every post but that one #slow burn is... fine? i dont care for any ships that employ slow burn apart from bubbline and id NEVER read bubbline fic #miscommunication is never ever written well in fanfic #'but my story--' no fuck you your miscommunication plot is bad #it works well in stories where there are fundamental incompatibilities with what characters NEED #it works well in shera proper because catra needs the exact opposite of what adora needs #catra wants devotion but also agency and adora cannot be devoted because she has to protect EVERYONE #and that means stripping catra of her agency too #and catra sees that as adora thinking shes bettervthan her #it doesnt matter how much they talk about it - their core feelings about the world and lack of psychological skills further push the clash #same for glimmer who wants agency and friendship when adora and bow are pushing her in a protective little shell #she sees it as being stripped of her agency!!! #she sees it as proof people think shes useless... her greatest fear #but adora sees it as protecting her #and the more glimmer lashes out the more adora just becomes Shera because adorq herself feels no use to anyone

[capaldiera]

i started reading this fucking out of character thick of it fanfic like a week ago bc even tho i could tell from first glance it was going to be ooc i was just curious and it sounded kind of funny slash tragic. (how are you tagging grief child death domestic violence attempted suicide on a ttoi fic hello?) and i dooo like complaining And for the most part if it weren't supposed to be about those guys it would just be pretty good so im not Regretting it? but i didn't realise how many stories were in the series and im probably 150k words in. and not much more than halfway through

#and it doesnt even have sex scenes. fml #me.txt #iam also so fed up with writing that seems to romanticise women prioritising men andtheir emotions over their own personal safety/ wellbeing #like im not saying you cant Depict that but maybe lets unpack that. and not treat it as if it's just that woman's inherent personality #rather than a something shes been Taught to do #though while we're on the subject actually i dont think the way nicola is written is in character either #like i focus on malcolm bc its more egregious but nicola is not.. shes not putting her kids before herself like that. #i know losing one of them might make a difference but its not even presented like it's bc of that. its just oh im writing a woman well her #priority must be her kids! well no she is a bad mum and doesnt really like her kids so #but that didnt stand out to me so much until i started rewatching s3. #i was more like ah yes. famously anti-racist feminist ally malcom tucker who easily goes not just hours but months at a time without saying #anything homophobic and uses the occasional ableist turn of phrase in his mind but usually keeps it to himself. #i mean i can definitely understand not wanting to comr up with and write realistic malcolm tucker dialogue. i wouldnt want to. #but well the whole thing is a bit he wouldnt fucking say or do any of that #but again. i could see that clearly from the description and walked in eyes open #its good tho its given me a lot to think about at work.

[asummersday]

IVE WRITTEN 2K THIS WEEK, WC IS AT 6K, THE CHAPTER IS COMING TOGETHER FINALLY, I AM UNSTOPPABLE AND I WILL KILL GOD

#its 1am and i drank an energy drink dont mind me. im normal usually. #i cant believe im at 6k #i really thought chapter 6 would barely scrape past 5k yet here we are #and im not even at the pstrol scene yet #and i know myself and i know full well i tend to go crazy for action scenes lol #but hey!!!! its going!!!!! its going!!!!!!!!!! #ive jusr been chanting ''it doesnt have to be perfect it just has to be written'' over and over #and i think its finally working #rough draft cant be edited into a good draft if its not fucking WRITTEN first #summer post #my writing #ataimw

[cjestie]

the thing with the new pjo show is it really is quite good you just have to divorce it from the books and then you're good👍

#pjo #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo show #percy jackson show #i really am enjoying it but as someone who is so fond of the source material the fact that its missing things is sad #i know that adapting written works to function as visual media necessitates that but by removing shit the characters #and the way they function and relate to the story feels very different #different specifically when you have the og media to contrast with #for a self contained piece of media the characters function super well and are great #but i just feel like theres something missing from them :/ #tragic to me that grover being a satyr has not been explored or anything even a little #man has his LEGS and HORNS out #i knowww that its for visual impact and visual character coding. like yes this man is a satyr this is a world of myths and legends #but the mist??? he had to cover that in the books so as not to tempt the mist #never bleats? has yet to eat a single weird thing. no pathfinding song. didnt talk to any animals yet. #doesnt seem to be able to smell monsters and gods??? #idk man. these things would be easy to show or add and their loss is sad to me

[permanentreverie]

The way that first love: hatsukoi is just hurting and pain but so good

#I really wish I binged it in one day like this show is phenomenal #so well written #depending on how I feel tomorrow I'll either go into work or finish this #but oh my word!!!!! #the pacing is incredible too like they're handling both timelines so well #and like the parralels!!! him saying at his sisters wedding he always wants to be the one to protect the ones he loves #then in the next scene he catches yae on the stairs #setting it up that yae learned sign language then later in the episode it comes back to her!!!! #but also like this show is SO painful oh my word I just my heart BREAKS for these two #but it's all so beautiful!!!! they were each other's first loves!!! #AND THEY KEEP FINDING EACH OTHER!! #happenstance! #she is falling for him again! she can't help it! EVEN WHEN SHE DOESNT REMEMBER HIM!! #they meet at the observatory and she avoids his building at work but ENDS UP THERE ANYWAYS #ahhhhhggg!!!!!! #10/10 if you ask me #and I think this drama is a happy ending too #if it was sad or bittersweet idk what I would have done #lindsay speaks #first love hatsukoi

[cleromancy]

god. saw someone say that bruce is 100% in the right vs jason bc No One Should Ever Kill. you mean the bruce that slit jasons throat and left him in a building wired to explode? that bruce?

#just absolute shit tier takes #also bruce works with confirmed killers like wonder woman and uh fucking Superman #but theyre at least honest about ir #it* #also one time he fucking bricked kgbeast in a flooding vault a la a cask of amontillado #another time he left kgbeast (again) in the middle of a frozen wasteland in a blizzard #but it doesnt count if you have plausible deniability right bruce ('s writers) #and this was allegedly a jason stan?? #im not saying you have to agree with his moral code (esp bc jason tosses it out the window any time he gets upset enough) #but im definitely judging you if you agree with bruce's 100% #(bc bruce is also a massive hypocrite who selectively enforces his moral code except on a much larger scale) #they were also like 'well actually'ing about it #like 'the tragedy of bruce and jason isnt that they both make good points. jason didnt. no one should ever kill. the tragedy is actually #that he died' #you are so boring. you are a boring person who chose the most boring way to interpret that stoey #you are fanon tim drake when written by people who don't get tim drake

[harveen-denzel]

I don't get how ppl can love leverage (OG) but hate Nate. Fundamentally it was *his* story, it was about anger and the complexity of a brilliant but terrible man who was a mishmash of gray morality and doing good things for the wrong reasons and healing back little bits and pieces of his soul while at the same time breaking and sliding deeper into this game he's playing and becoming addicted to his role as avenging angel. He was never meant to be a good person, and if you think he was, you weren't paying attention. But leverage as a team, the individuals, and by extension the whole show, are all a reflection of him, his experience, his crimes for the betterment of good, honest people. He is the foundation of tboh the show's themes and narrative, I feel like you can't love those without appreciating him.

#leverage #nate ford #please i want to understand the hate #obviously the show is about more than that- im just talking about the fundamentals #and I'm not one of those people #his story was told and finished and he doesnt have much of a place in the new narrative #but hes just a very... well written and nuanced character #and ppl disliking him becauss hes not nice or w/e are like. well you can like what you want but it feels juvenile and out of place in lev #hes not supposed to be nice #or good #people arent always. and you cant be if youre gonna be as ruthless as this team was if youre tryna be Nice #this show wouldnt have worked if he was outwardly kind or less arrogant or were gentle with the team #idk #me ending a deep essay post with 'idk' moments #idk why my tags are getting messed up #im NOT one of those ppl who thinks they shouldve brought back nate in lev:red. tumblr stop messing up my tags challenge

[marklikely]

the results of that "is fanfic a book" poll have shown me one thing and its that this site never graduated past that absolutely insufferable phase in 2013 where everyone acted like every book is the single most sacred thing on earth

#sorry rant incoming. you know like the people who got way too offended over dog earing or carving books for art or things like that? #that's what the notes section of that poll feel like. just way too many people (on both sides) putting way too much importance on Books. #like first you have the 'um ive read fanfic that was deep and beautiful and thematic so yes all fanfic is books' votes #which like. ok. ive also read really deep thematic screenplays but that doesnt make it a book its simply not. what a book is #then you have the honestly even worse 'um your reylo au isn't like the works of the masters its not REAL BOOKS' crowd #which like. yeah most actual published books are not as good as the 'works of the masters' whatever that means. so you have proven nothing #which brings us back to the absolute worst of all 'colleen hoover & co aren't books either' SOMEHOW #like. ok well i think her work is pretty bad but it was literally edited and published into literal books so #if you're going to decide that you get to be the arbiter of what books are Good Enough to count as Real Books well you've lost already. #because no that's not how any of this works. youre fighting one of the most famous Losing Battles in all of art discourse. #a book is just. a format that writing can be in its not some holy status you have to work to acheive #and to try and turn it into that is really stupid and self important i think because like again #who gets to decide what books are Real? what motivates them to make that choice? what biases are benefited from that? #i think its worth noting in conversations like this everyone wants to deny female romance authors the title of Real Book #(which yes a lot of those books are very shallow or badly written. many have outright offensive tropes) #but nobody mentions the equally shallow and offensive stuff by/for men. like william johnstone's shitty cowboy books for example. #no matter how you try to frame it youre going to lose the second you decide something has to fit your standards to be real art. #avpost #its very reminiscent for me of the conversation around modern art where people just want to say they know what is and isn't real art #based on like whatever standards they want. 'ugh its just dots it's not real art'. do u see where im coming from. #a book is just. a piece of writing that was edited and published in the form of a physical book. that's it. its a v literal if vague noun. #it can be something with a lot of depth and meaning. it can be shallow and hacky. it can be nonfiction entirely. its not a value statement #which can also be said about art as a whole some of it is very shallow and bad. some of it is extremely skilled and profound #anyway. no fanfic isn't inherently books but some fanfics have undergone editing & publishing and became books i think #and that doesnt mean that they're 'as good as' the classics by really skilled writers. but theyre still books #tbh a lot of the published fanfic books are worse than most nonbook fanfic. them being books isnt a statement of being more valuable. #its just a literal fact. #i think its interesting to discuss but i swear its not a huge deal whether fanfic is books the bigger deal to me is #the weird attitude popping up on both sides. which i think most people would also find stupid if their brains hadnt been like #totally ruined by an uninterrupted 5 years of insufferable-on-all-sides fanfic discourse that has ruled this website.

[bunnyb34r]

Idk why people underestimate my stubborness/willingness to stick to my guns ab something like you're gonna find out and you will not be happy bitch. Don't play chicken with me, I'll take you out. I'll take us both out before I even THINK ab conceding.

#marquilla #my moms niece has been bouncing around who's address she sends her mail to (without asking) bc she doesnt have an address #(it's voluntary homelessness. she is perfectly able to obtain an actual place to live but she gets gofundme money from scammers this way) #anwyay im firm ab her not sending it here so im sending back everything to the post office with a 'return to sender. adressee does not live #here' written on it and im going to be doing it IMMEDIATELY after getting the mail so my mom can't take it and enable her #like im not fucking joking idc if it's bills if it's w-2s or whatever i did not give consent for you to use my address. get a po box #fuck around and find out you fucking murderer. i do not enable nor associate with the people who are responsible for the death of 3 #of my closest family members. i do not reward them i do not enage with them. i dont fuck around #and i get home before mom so i have the full ability to do this too. i told her to tell her she is not allowed to do this. im following #through. #ive done this at work when FGM wanted to change my shift. when he wanted me to work another area. when he decided to fuck with me. #him and bratboy learned real quick not to mess with me. #im probably gonna delete this later im just mad #i know mom isnt happy with my plan but well if you allowed her then YOU did not ask me and I do not consent to this. #malicious compliance too bc she does NOT live at my address so im not lying. im merely stating a fact. im merely returning mail that should #not have been sent to me. #fuck around and find out bitch. ill burn us both before i even think ab helping you. get fucked #just bc im quiet and nice does not mean im passive

[axellis-archv-2]

a moment abt overhalliday if you dont mind but its in the tags bc im embarrassed sowwy..

#its like its like . sorry everything ive drawn/written up in this point is like not even kidding like maybe 2 years into the timeline #that i have in my brain #butlike in the early stages hes like . well . well hes an asshole #likehes . of the opinion that the world is always out to Get Him in a sense so hes very closed off && treats every interaction as if its an #exchange && that if he gives as minimal as possible then he doesnt potentially owe anybody anything #but at the same time deep down he cares So Much to the point that sometimes it can hurt so he runs a mechanic shop for absolutely free #bc it both helps those in need && he probably doesnt owe anybody anything . except running a shop costs $$ #so he goes into the only thinghe can even see himself doing which is underground dirtywork . delivering packages w ransoms etc #he doesnt do Mercenary work per se or assassinations bc that could earn him enemies && he doesnt want enemies #at the end of the day he just wants to be left alone #he develops the healing heatgun at some point && starts being like a very respected engineer to the point that now a lott of people talk #but like everybody also talks about his bad attitude bc he just fixes you up && then tells you to gtfo #in my head if we're going into Actual Canon hed probably meet ramattrα via ram like . hiring him outright for a job #bc someone recc'd halliday && one of the points that probably intrigued him was halliday refusing to be paid for mechanic/healing jobs #the only services he wanted money on was if he was doing “other labor” && ramattrα probably wanted to test && see if this was true #&& like sure enough doing an examination at his workshop just had him to be told to leave once halliday was done #but then being asked to accompany him on a mission halliday was like “Thats where it starts costing” #etc etc etc im sorry for the long ramble in the tags . #sorry to the ppl who click “more” on the tags && get met w this #📗 my post #🎆 ramattrα #🧯 overhalliday (s/i) #<- there his special little tag

[catboy-kakashi]

There’s a lot of really great stuff in The Owl House, but if I’m being honest, what stuck out to me the most was Eda’s curse - specifically, the way it was portrayed in Keeping Up A-Fear-Ances

As someone with chronic pain, who knows there’s no “magic cure”, who knows it’s only going to get worse as I get older, who knows all I can do is manage the pain and accept that my disability is part of who I am, I really really appreciated the not-so-subtle parallels being drawn there

#this isnt gonna be a well written essay. i dont have the energy or word smithing for that #i just. its really nice to see someone being told ‘hey. im sorry i spent all this time trying to fix you #when what you really needed was someone to help you cope with your new reality’ #idk. hard to explain #i sort of selfishly hope eda doesnt get curred. i hope she stays the way she is #as someone who accepts the curse as part of who she is. who has learned to work around her limitations #and isnt seen as weak or helpless or a burden because of it #the owl house #only tagging for the followers that want to avoid spoilers #​ camtankerous is whining

[darkhopping]

now that im taking an american history class i can finally pinpoint exactly why the "hu//ma/ns a/re sp/ace or/cs" or "s/pac/e aus//trali/a" thing reminded me so much of american exceptionalism (despite the name lol) so much of it was like "hurr durr humans are so cool and badass because unlike aliens we grew up w/ the frontier harsh conditions on earth and strange human culture" like honestly idk what i expected when like a good 90% of humans depicted were like american or just from western countries . also the phrase "space: the final frontier" makes sense now . didnt know what the fuck frontier meant until now

#skjfndbdnfnnfd spaceward expansion #ah . yet another form of expansion as a commercial venture #there was some other weird shit too #space orientalism directed at humans isnt necessarily bad the way ive seen ppl write it just sucks #the way i see space civilization/savagery directed at humans written like sucks as well #this genre has often come across as horribly tone deaf #like . white people taking struggles faced by people of color #and slapping a sci fi coat of paint over it #and having these space struggles be suffered by like mostly white and western humans in their works #its annoying #always came off like these people barely know what the hell theyre writing about #let alone what its called #if the genre doesnt look like this anymore then i wouldnt know i stopped paying attention #because of this very thing #shit sucks im going back to reading the left hand of darkness #though i guess i have a thesis topic now if i need it